>>The economy is finally getting better after the mess W. Bush left us in.
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>>On what do you base this opinion? The phony dummied up job numbers? Or the fact that we have amassed over 5 trillion dollars in additional debt under the Messiah? Do you have children? If so, are your really that delighted with the debt that Obama and his cronies have saddled them? Or is it the fact that Obama wants to shut down the coal industry so that we can all pay twice what we are paying now for electricity?
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>>When Obama took ofice, gasoline prices were $1.95 / gallon. Now they are $3.59 / gallon here in Akron, Ohio. Oh yes, things have gotten so much better.
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>While gas prices might have been particularly low in January, 2009, what you're leaving out was that there were historical highs in the summer of 2008. IIRC, they suddenly started dropping in the weeks before the election.
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>Try this site: http://gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx
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>Set it to show you a six-year picture of US Average. What you'll see is prices around $3/gallon, then a huge spike in the spring and summer of '08, then a dip twice that height, then a fairly steady climb back to a peak around $4, followed once again by a drop. January, 2009 happens to be just about at the bottom of that huge dip. Even showing 8 years (the max that page allows), no other time was as low as January '09.

Adjusted for inflation the historical peak for average gas prices occurred in 1918. 1981, 2008, 2011 and now are comparable.

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>Tamar